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STINGN · **Posted:** Sat May 21, 2011 8:21 pm

added a LED bulb to the rear dome light...I LOVE IT.

ordering 2 for my map lights as soon as they are out of backorder lol

and once again thank you to Brad for making me the bracket and helping wire it. In all honestly he did like, 90% of the work, but when a man is hot on the trail with a job, dont get in his way! he was blazing through it and did a perfect job!

and in return I gave him my OTIS and will be giving him my skids once i get skid row skids

Steve

STINGN · **Posted:** Thu May 26, 2011 5:07 pm

selling my Nikon D80 with a lens for a Nikon D90 with a even better lens and I only have to pay $50!

STINGN · **Posted:** Fri May 27, 2011 3:54 pm

STINGN · **Posted:** Sat May 28, 2011 6:54 pm

sold the Nikon D80 today and getting a D90 on tuesday! only spending $25 woot!

tommudd · **Posted:** Sat May 28, 2011 7:49 pm

Getting tired of talking to yourself yet?
:-)r

STINGN · **Posted:** Sat May 28, 2011 9:26 pm

tommudd wrote:

Getting tired of talking to yourself yet?
:-)r

i think i might check myself into the crazy people place...IN OHIO!

ihatemybike · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 11:02 pm

Back from Pastafari and spent most of the day trying to figure out my first cylinder head removal.

BugginKJ · **Joined:** Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:35 pm **Posts:** 4576

STINGN wrote:

tommudd wrote:

Getting tired of talking to yourself yet?
:-)r

i think i might check myself into the crazy people place...IN OHIO!

You'll have more fun, plus our meds are stronger :jester:

ihatemybike wrote:

Back from Pastafari and spent most of the day trying to figure out my first cylinder head removal.

Start from the top and work your way down :ROTFL:

ihatemybike · **Posted:** Thu Jun 09, 2011 11:38 pm

Finally got the cylinder head off. Not pretty. Valve seat was sitting on top of the piston, broken into several pieces. Head is damaged, not sure if it's repairable. Piston is scored and has a piece of valve seat stuck to it. Only positive I see is the that the cylinder appears undamaged.

A couple new heads (don't trust the other head now) and a piston assembly and I'm sure I can get it going again, but what's next? I guess the oil pump should be replaced too, cause that has killed other engines.

Need to do more research.

Really wishing I had a big garage right now.

STINGN · **Posted:** Fri Jun 10, 2011 8:48 am

sold my mont blanc pen for $200

sold my d80 for $400

went and got a slightly used D90 with extra charger, 28-75mm tamron lens and a sb600 speedlight for.....$500!!!!!!!

only upgraded for $100 and got a lens and a speedlight

NewOldTimer · **Posted:** Fri Jun 10, 2011 9:50 pm

ihatemybike wrote:

Finally got the cylinder head off. Not pretty. Valve seat was sitting on top of the piston, broken into several pieces. Head is damaged, not sure if it's repairable. Piston is scored and has a piece of valve seat stuck to it. Only positive I see is the that the cylinder appears undamaged.

A couple new heads (don't trust the other head now) and a piston assembly and I'm sure I can get it going again, but what's next? I guess the oil pump should be replaced too, cause that has killed other engines.

Need to do more research.

Really wishing I had a big garage right now.

From someone who's been there before.......

Since you've got it apart anyway, take the time to do a complete inventory, and consider
doing a complete rebuild.

As you said yourself, don't trust the other head... pull it and have both done.
In my case, it was only $200 additional to completely do BOTH heads (valves, seats, 3 angle, even cc'd)
than to do just the damaged one.
If you do one piston, may as well do all six. Otherwise you're just asking for one of the others to go.
New pistons, and rings all around. May as well consider the rods too.

When I burnt an exhaust valve on my 6 cylinder, the cost of the head work for just that
valve was $600 parts and labor. (Pull the head, replace damaged parts, install the head)
I ended up pulling the motor myself, and getting the heads completely done (3 angle, port & polish, valves, lifters, seats, & cc'd),
the block was decked 0.012, new pistons & rings, rods were balanced and shot peened, oil journals were camfered,
crankshaft was balanced, new oil pump, new aluminum intake, and new carb. All this still cost me under $1000.
All I had to do was re-install the "brand new" motor. I went a little overboard with add ons, and bought a couple of
things that were "nice to have" not need to have, but hey, that's me.

Yeah, I know..... it's only money. But think about it.
Spending a couple hundred now for a complete rebuild can end up saving allot later on down the road.
Especially if you can do most of the work yourself.

jeepfrog · **Posted:** Sat Jun 18, 2011 4:56 pm

I hope you can get Eugene up and running soon! :JEEPIN:

STINGN · **Posted:** Sat Jun 18, 2011 11:29 pm

yellocoyote wrote:

Decided to wait on the remanned engine for now in order to save some money - looking to have it done this fall. Not sure yet how this will play into going to ECS. Time will tell.

For now, we dropped the passenger side head off at a shop to be rebuilt... hopefully we'll get it back during the week next week... and be able to get everything assembled and have Eugene running again soon.

:juggle:

Hey Steve - when you got your new engine, what kind of break-in did you have to do? Mileage/oil changes/etc? I'm trying to do some forecasting and planning...

regular oil changes...once you get it, first 500 miles, then 3000 miles after that like normal....i guess for the first 500 dont drive tooheavy foot

501 · **Posted:** Sun Jun 19, 2011 12:17 am

STINGN wrote:

yellocoyote wrote:

Decided to wait on the remanned engine for now in order to save some money - looking to have it done this fall. Not sure yet how this will play into going to ECS. Time will tell.

For now, we dropped the passenger side head off at a shop to be rebuilt... hopefully we'll get it back during the week next week... and be able to get everything assembled and have Eugene running again soon.

:juggle:

Hey Steve - when you got your new engine, what kind of break-in did you have to do? Mileage/oil changes/etc? I'm trying to do some forecasting and planning...

regular oil changes...once you get it, first 500 miles, then 3000 miles after that like normal....i guess for the first 500 dont drive tooheavy foot

This was the same for mine Jayme. Sorry to hear Eugene is down.

bugnout · **Posted:** Sun Jun 26, 2011 10:33 pm

Welcome back Eugene!!!

STINGN · **Posted:** Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:37 pm

i got it guys! now you can stop bugging me!

teckman02 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 01, 2011 11:20 pm

you ont have one yet you photoshoped it on

STINGN · **Posted:** Fri Jul 01, 2011 11:36 pm

psh you wish it was photoshopped!

the ones i uploaded were EDITED so they look a little more fake if you will

here are RAW files

bugnout · **Posted:** Sat Jul 02, 2011 8:51 am

Very Nice.... :pepper:

now you need to move the washer reservoir. :oops:

KJ Willy · **Posted:** Mon Jul 04, 2011 8:29 pm

Looks good Steve, whens the winch getting put in?

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